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| CATEGORIES ABOUT AHMES | |
| ancient mathematicians | |
| ancient egyptians | |
| egyptian mathematics | |
| egyptian fractions | |
| egyptian mathematicians | |
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Wooden Tablet, P. Reisner and the P. Kahun provide a range of methods that Ahmes drew upon. Ahmes states without proof that a circular field with a diameter of 9 units is equal in area to a square with sides of 8 units (Beckman, 1971). In modern notation: :π(9/2)² = 8² which leads to a value of Pi approximately equal to 3.16, within two hundreths of the true value of Pi . This irrational number pi tended to go beyond the rational number domain of Egyptian mathematics. REFERENCES
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